City now owner of Admiral's Row
The transition of Admiral's Row from the federal government to the city has been finalized, announced Senator Charles Schumer last week. The move clears the way for the area's first major supermark...

DOT to make Brooklyn Bridge Park safer
As part of its ongoing effort to make the roadways around Brooklyn Bridge Park safer, the city announced recently it will reconstruct the onramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway so pedestrians wil...

Experts say hunger is at crisis level in NYC
With the economic recession continuing, Food Bank released its most recent set of alarming numbers regarding the level of poverty in New York City. The numbers were obtained through a partnership w...

City says no to hydrofracking
More than 40,000 New York City residents submitted testimony saying “frack no” in the state public comment period on hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling for oil, into the Marcellus Shale ups...

Brooklyn Public Library hosts 8th annual PowerUP!
Brooklyn Public Library’s Eighth Annual PowerUP! Small Business Plan Competition held its annual award ceremony at Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Center on Tuesday, January 10. And the top prize o...

New program helps restaurants open quicker
Just call it fast food. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Speaker Christine Quinn announced last week that a total of 546 restaurants have opened using the services of the New Business Acceleration Team....

This time, it's 911 that's getting the help
Ten years after 9/11, a huge overhaul in the city's 911 emergency response system has been completed. For the first time in city history, 911 emergency call takers and dispatchers from the NYPD, FD...

A setback for Pier 5 “Bubble”After an RFP issued by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation resulted in no submission of proposals to build a year-round recreational facility at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5, elected officials re...

LOWER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires blazing in several Western states Sunday chewed up forests and threatened homes but were most numerous in Northern California where dozens are raging and setting off evacuations.

US President Barack Obama will Monday unveil what he called the "biggest, most important step we've ever taken" to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy. The White House will release the final version of America's Clean Power Plan, a set of environmental rules and regulations that will home in on the pollution from the nation's existing power plants, setting limits on power-plant carbon emissions for the first time. Plants will have to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.